Thursday, February 28, 2008

'I don't roll on Shabbos'

In a bipartisan show of support for a local Jewish school basketball team,lawmakers in the Senate this morning urged state athletics officials to pushback a game until after sundown on Saturday.

The boys from Herzl/Rocky Mountain Hebrew Academy basketball team arecurrently fighting their way through their high school district playoffs. If theteam wins one more game, it will play for the championships. But the ColoradoHigh School Activities Association has scheduled that championship game forduring the day on Saturday and has said it won't move the contest.

The boys' religious beliefs dictate that they not play between sundownFriday and sundown Saturday.

If Herzl/Rocky Mountain Hebrew Academy isn't the most daunting high school name out there, we don't know what is.

People can accomodate to a point. But, none of them- BYU, Herzl/Rocky Mountain Hebrew Academy, whoever- should be able to hide behind their religion in order to have their cake and eat it, too. At some point, they need to make a decision. If they really want to win the championship, they'll play on Shabbat.

From the cheap seats, I have to say, lighten the fuck up! It's not like it's Yom Kippur. Just because God rested on the seventh day- and, since Judaism and Christianity both observe some version of this, it applies to followers of both faiths- doesn't mean that, in 2008, you get to sit on your ass and do nothing for one day each week.

Clearly you are out of touch since that is EXACTLY what observant Jews do on Shabbos. Nobody is "hiding behind" anything, according to Jewish law such activity is prohibited on Shabbos. Suggesting that one has to compromise ones religious convictions to... win a basketball game is just silly.

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